Between Fame and Shame by Heidrun Bruckner
Between Fame and Shameedited by Heidrun Bruckner, Hanne de Bruin, and Heike Moser presents twelve essays dealing with the role of women in various Indian performance traditions and in different social contexts. The volume's contributions are intended to convey a better understanding of the - often troubled - relation between women and public performances. The cultural performances studied range from possession performed by women as a religious service to a deity, to on-stage performances by professional actresses representing different performance genres. The regional focus is on South India, especially Kerala and Karnataka. A special feature of the book is the simultaneous internet publication of the audio, audio-visual, and visual materials referred to in the articles. Some of the audio provide for the first time samples of oral literary genres recorded, in some cases as early as the 1970s. The authors of the essays are anthropologists (Claus, Schombucher, Guillebaud), folklorists (Rai), Indologists (Bruckner, de Bruin, Moser, Johan, Griebl/Sommer) sociologists (Schulze), and theatre scholars (Daugherty, Pitkow) from India, Europe, and the USA.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9783447062817 |
| ISBN 10 | 3447062819 |
| Title | Between Fame and Shame |
| Author | Heidrun Bruckner |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Harrassowitz |
| Year published | 2011-03-01 |
| Number of pages | 284 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |